LOCKE IN SECOND TREATISE
OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT
Find corresponding excerpts from the Declaration
of Independence and match them to Locke’s “Second Treatise of Government” by writing them in the
area below the appropriate excerpt
1. “When any one, or more, shall
take upon them to make laws whom the people have not appointed so to do, they make laws without authority, which the people
are not therefore bound to obey; by which means they come again to be out of subjection, and may institute to themselves a
new legislature.”
2. “Whosoever uses force without
right… puts himself into a state of war with those against whom he so uses it, and in that state all former ties are
canceled, all other rights cease, and every one has a right to defend himself, and to resist the aggressor…”
3. “A state also of equality,
wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another…”
4. “To great and chief end,
therefore, of men uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property…”
